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Quotes About Playfulness

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.
~ Thomas M. Disch
balloonwallas tried to seduce the children with their
~ Thrity Umrigar
In second grade, she'd snuck up on a napping Eva and colored her entire forearm with a highlighter. Because she was "important.
~ Tia Williams
Life was invented for kids. But then we all grow up, and society imposes filters that block the joy of silliness and sponging up pointless little things that make childhood the magic time for which it is widely known.
~ Tim Dorsey
Nobody can hold me back when it's time to play.
~ A. J. Green
I really think one of the most extraordinary things in the world is the amount of noise a child can make.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
~ Christopher Guest
I have this strange notion that clothes should be fun.
~ Alfred Enoch
I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
~ Orhan Pamuk
You can never guess what a kid's going to find funny - besides, you know, an obvious fart joke here and there.
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
~ Norton Juster
Si può giocare tutto il giorno, ma sentirsi molto più seri di chiunque altro. Prendere sul serio l'essenza e l'immediatezza della vita con un'ingenuità propria solo dei bambini.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Si può giocare tutto il giorno, ma sentirsi molto più seri di chiunque altro.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
~ Orson Scott Card
Para conservar la alegría de la infancia tendrías que morir siendo niño, o vivir como tal, sin convertirte nunca en hombre, sin crecde jamás.
~ Orson Scott Card
I enjoyed making them, and if it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?
~ Walter Isaacson
Regardez ! J'ai dessiné un cercle ! s'exclama Warhol après avoir joué avec MacDraw.
~ Walter Isaacson
What happened to fun?" "Our insurance doesn't cover it!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!
~ Charles M. Schulz
People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.
~ Charles Schulz
We wove a web in childhood,A web of sunny air.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Clasping her to him, he hugged her for a long while and she felt his guilt and fear subside. "Do you want to see something very special—something magical?" Giggling she whispered, "You already showed me that this morning." He swatted her bottom. "Minx! Not that!
~ Charlotte Featherstone
We'll fix that," May declared. Libby giggled at her. "What? I totally mean it." "I know. That's not what's funny: Your accent came back hard-core." "Shut up! No, it didn't," May giggled back.
~ Cherie Priest